Nvidia's new Arm-based APU rumoured to launch in an Alienware laptop later this year with RTX 4070 mobile performance and 'breakthrough' power efficiency

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Nvidia's long-rumoured APU for gaming laptops didn't emerge at the recent Computex show. But now there's talk that it could appear by the end of the year powering a new Alienware laptop and offer gaming performance on par with a RTX 4070 mobile GPU while consuming barely more than half the power.

According to a report in the United Daily News, a Taiwanese outlet, the new APU will launch either in the final quarter of 2025 or early in 2026. As previously rumoured, it's said Nvidia is producing the new chip in co-operation with MediaTek, the latter being a specialist in designing chips with Arm cores.